“You've been promising your college friends a girls' weekend for two years — this is the hotel that finally makes it happen.”

If you're trying to get four to six friends into the same city for a long weekend without anyone sleeping on a pullout couch or passive-aggressively Venmoing for a hotel room they didn't love, stop scrolling. The Ann Savannah is an apartment-style property under the Marriott Bonvoy umbrella that solves the single biggest problem with group travel: everyone actually wants to be in the same place. It's on Ann Street, a few blocks from River Street and the heart of the Historic District, which means you're walking distance from everything worth doing and nobody has to be the designated driver.

Savannah is quietly one of the best girls' trip cities on the East Coast — the food scene punches way above its weight, the squares are genuinely gorgeous without trying too hard, and the whole town moves at a pace that makes brunch feel like a legitimate afternoon activity. The Ann is the property that matches that energy. It's not a party hotel. It's not a boutique hotel that charges you extra for atmosphere. It's the place where you make coffee in your own kitchen at 9am, regroup after solo wandering at 4pm, and end the night with popcorn and a show on the couch in your pajamas.

The rooms are apartments, and that changes everything

The biggest thing The Ann gets right is space. These aren't hotel rooms with a kitchenette shoved into a corner — they're actual apartments with full kitchens, living areas, and enough square footage that you don't have to watch someone else pack their suitcase while you're trying to drink your morning coffee. For a girls' weekend, this is the whole game. You have a place to gather that isn't a bed. You have counter space for the wine and charcuterie board someone inevitably assembles at 5pm. You have a couch long enough for a proper Gilmore Girls marathon when nobody feels like going out.

The interiors lean into that warm, textured aesthetic that photographs extremely well — think neutral tones, thoughtful tile work, and the kind of mirrors that were clearly placed with selfies in mind. It's the sort of design that reads as effortless but is very much not. Your group chat will have content for weeks. The beds are comfortable in the way that matters: you sleep hard after a day of walking Savannah's squares, and you wake up without that vaguely hostile hotel-mattress backache.

The kitchen situation deserves its own mention. Having a real coffee setup in the morning changes the rhythm of a group trip entirely. Instead of everyone scrambling to find caffeine before they can function, you're actually hanging out together in that slow first hour of the day. Stock up at a grocery store on arrival — it takes twenty minutes and saves you from overpaying for mediocre hotel breakfast every morning. For dinner, though, you're going out. Little James, the restaurant nearby, is worth the walk: the aesthetic alone is worth showing up for, and the food backs it up.

“It's the hotel where you make coffee together at 9am, split up to explore, and end up on the couch with popcorn by 10pm — and nobody's mad about it.”

Location-wise, you're in a sweet spot. The Historic District is your backyard, and Savannah is a supremely walkable city — you'll cover most of it on foot without ever feeling like you're trekking. River Street is close for the obligatory visit, but honestly you'll spend more time wandering the squares, popping into shops on Broughton Street, and petting every single dog you encounter. Savannah has more friendly dogs per capita than anywhere I've been, and that's not hyperbole, it's a lifestyle.

One honest note: this is a Marriott Bonvoy property, which means the service is consistent and reliable but not boutique-hotel-quirky. Nobody's leaving handwritten notes on your pillow. What you get instead is a smooth check-in, clean rooms, and the kind of operational competence that means nothing goes wrong. For a group trip, that matters more than charm. The last thing you need is a "character" hotel where the AC is temperamental and the front desk closes at 9pm.

The unexpected thing nobody tells you: the building itself has a quiet confidence that grows on you. The hallways don't feel like a hotel — they feel residential, in a good way. By day two, you stop feeling like a guest and start feeling like you temporarily live in Savannah, which is exactly the headspace a great girls' weekend needs. You're not visiting. You're here.

The plan

Book at least six weeks out if you're coming for a weekend between March and June — Savannah's spring is peak season and these apartments fill up fast. Get a two-bedroom unit so you have a real living room as home base; cramming into a one-bedroom defeats the entire purpose. Hit a grocery store on the way from the airport — coffee, wine, snacks, done. Walk to Little James for at least one dinner. Skip any tourist-trap restaurant on River Street that has a host standing outside. And on your last morning, make coffee in the apartment one more time, sit on the couch, and be a little sad about leaving. That's how you know it worked.

Rates for a one-bedroom apartment start around $200 per night, with two-bedroom units running closer to $300. Split four ways, you're paying less per person than most standard hotel rooms in the Historic District — and you're getting a kitchen, a living room, and the kind of space that turns a trip into an actual memory. Marriott Bonvoy points work here too, which is the kind of detail that makes one friend in the group chat unreasonably excited.

Book the two-bedroom, grocery-shop on arrival, walk everywhere, eat at Little James, and send this to the group chat before someone suggests another Airbnb with questionable reviews.